Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1883-09-28, p.2

# THE WEEKLY ALERT. J. C. WARNOCK, Editor. The over zealous postmaster general Gresham claims that he has exceeded his authority is directing the postmaster general at New Orleans to not deliver any letters to or redeem any money orders payable to the Louisiana State Lottery, that any because he has learned to his own satisfaction that the lottery is drawing money in that way for the Louisiana State Lottery. He says they are all fictious business correspondence of any character with that bank and it would in comparison to conduct that business as would be a fine state of affairs if a bank or other business enterprise transacted at the advantage and privilege of the main at the caprice of a single individual who constituted autocrat. Such a thing might be done in Russia or some absolute monarchy where people had altogether been bound to respect. It is fortunate for the people that the last tackled an institution which has the wealth to test the authority in the courts. The question in the case will not be the character of the lottery referred to but the authority of the postmaster general to deprive the bank of the privilege of the mails in the transaction of its business. The Valley City Times comes up to the full of its duties weight of evidence and gives away a circumstance which will convince the people of the truth of the allegations made by the editor of the Sioux Falls Press that once upon a time Governor Ordway offered him a large bribe. It seems that Chas. Richardson, editor of the Times, who was present last winter, at and about the time the legislature adjourned, alleging in some way of being a sojourner at Yankton militates somewhat towards the credibility of the witness but truth very often comes out of unlikely places, and this is not instance of that remarkable kind. The facts of the case seem to be, as Richardson relates them himself, that he accompanied the members of the legislature, which composed what was known as the Iron Brigade, on their excursion trip to the governor's office. After several of the members had tried their eloquence upon the governor, and after Jul LaMoure had attempted to the usual resort of the "enclosed fact to his Excellency that the most powerful persuader of the day (of course) could play a stiller game of poker, sent in a more wholesome lot of other set of men in the territory," the governor did then and there invite Richardson to said couch or dais. Richardson, and offer him a cigar, which to look and numbered himself among the class. For purpose he has never been said to find himself new, as is not the method of the government, gives the secret to the public through his press. That Alert would like to have seen the capital legally established at Bismarck. Their doing so by constitutional convention would have provided the territory with the finest capital in the northwest. Northwest considering the cost of a cent to the people in the way of bonus money upon the lands and the services the Alert is with her, but no farther. We cannot afford to take a dozen chances in that way out of friendship for Bismark, nor can we afford to be unjust to oursselves. The judgment of the court is against her. The legislature cannot constitutionally by law until otherwise ordered by a higher authority. Bismarck can be proceeded. Bismarck can gain new and strong friends by complying with the law and the precedent of the court, and she can, on the other hand, make a great many enemies regarding the decision. The masses of the people of North Dakota have great reverence for the law born and used in the territory. There is nothing to prevent Bismarck from proceeding with the building of capital as a private and individual enterprise. Of course they could not get money out of the territorial treasury and they do not expect it, nor would it be possible to get it from this source. The law being void the territory cannot be asked to put money that would be realized from the sale of lots. The territory would not furnish its credit to assist in the to construct the building as a Bismarck enterprise and then probably dedicate it to the territory in consideration of the location of the capital being confirmed in a proper way. They are under no obligation to go into the capital building or do anything for that matter. The law being void the land sales amount to the thing. The fine building they designed to erect, if carried as the evidence of a willingness and ability to comply with the law in every way, would be as liberal as any one could wish and would be a powerful attraction. The next legislature should to be composed of a conservative, able, politic, and safe membership, if the construction should, and with such a legislature Bismarck has every reason for encouragement and justification for removing the capital from Yankton. Bismarck can get the capital commission chamber and railway connection all the way between the capital seat and the boundary line. The future will be composed of new members from that case. The order of Postmaster General Gresham against delivering letters or redeeming money orders payable to the National bank is likely to raise a breeze elsewhere. One thing of the first inquiry that will make his irrelevant to his basis is "flagrantly more constitutional" the present war measure against. The American people are jealous of their individual rights and this is no small part of those in authority which smarts of an encroachment upon them. The people demand that those who administer the law be themselves always within the law, and with the intelligent press of the country everywhere ready and watchful upon the guaranteed rights of the people every one will be made to understand that no matter of what political party the attempt may be, to encroach upon one of the least of the rights of an American citizen will the be met with swift resentment. It is the duty of the press, which in this intelligent age and especially in America, is the lever that moves the world, to meet such innovations on the threshold and throttle them in their infancy. On the subject of this order of the postmaster general, the *Press* says editorially says: The act of congress may justify the postmaster general in refusing to deliver mail to M. A. Dauphin, as manager of the Louisiana State Lottery at New Orleans, but it must be apparent to the most unimaginative that it is an extreme stretch to direct the postmaster to refuse to deliver mail of one postal section not dressed to or drawn in favor of the New Orleans National bank. Now perhaps a popular but none the less fraught with danger of excess. The constitution of the United States declares that the freedom of affairs shall be inviolable, and that the United States mails shall be open to the full of official legislation is a long established truth. Such orders as the postmaster general has now issued if pushed to extremity would create revolution. It is an outrage upon individual constitutional rights condemnation that the past record of an influential and powerful official. We have not yet seen the full text of the constitution adopted by the Sioux Falls convention. But so far as we may judge from the telegraphic reports, the constitution is a liberal document to which congress can make no objection on the grounds of the absence of rights or incompatibilities with the letter and spirit of the federal constitution. It will it be on the grounds of doing away with the grand jury that congress will be most pointedly exposed. The question will be just as much whether and why the the constitution as the necessity of the public policy of dividing the territory. If South Dakota has been admitted to the north part the nucleus of a state. The people of the table territories being directly affected by it, and in consequence the two parties are not perhaps the best judges of the question. It requires a disinterested and statesmanlike wisdom to decide a public question affecting mostly one's own interests or wishes, and for this reason neither the people south or north of the 46th parallel can be regarded as impartial judges. If South Dakota had been satisfied to go into the union under the name of South Dakota, so far as North Dakota is concerned no obstacle would have been thrown in the way. But one state could been allowed to detract from the territory. The old family will always be best of the homestead, in peace and with our common mother. But she has now contemporaneously disregarded the earnest and repeated preference of North Dakota against appropriating the name of Dakota, except such action was so doing justice and our right. She has in her selfish determination to go it alone made disdain the good will and sympathy of North Dakota; and if the constitution of Maine that has been raised above mediocrity and made famous in North Dakota by great enterprise and clear administrative in the name of Dakota State brings with it the severance of the name Dakota and the giving in of some other name. That will require bringing this matter to bring up its to present celebrity, if it was proposed that a compact of these two afford which forbearance ceases to be a virtue, once the end of North Dakota has been reached and passed. The "manifest confidence" of South Dakota into the union as the state of Dakota, but if she is put down by the long continued and continued opposition of North Dakota the only recourse is to submit to the balls of congress, and North Dakota should make preparation to meet the issue there. Once again the *Alert*, which is always hankering after the good old wayward sinners of Jamestown, would administer a rebuke to the people there instead of going duck shooting or meandering around in an aimless fashion in favor of some vices. Prof. Swift, of the Jamestown college, is a young man who has discovered a comet heading directly toward the sun. Now the *Alert* has stated several times that if a cannon ball, so that if you have been making no preparations enough to receive what you have, you may avail yourself of this timely warning. Here is your opportunity for fixing things up in good shape in your spiritual accounts, and while you are called upon for settlement. The weapon we now fire back into the already well ranged of the braves is aimed at North Dakota for deliberately moved away from Yankton at to South Dakota by a convention's way. Given the moral uncertainty it would be well for both to provide against the worst and make ready for the worst. If you have planned to go duck shooting, or fishing in the Jamestown lake, and spending the money in remunerating your affairs, do not to the contribution box, reing while you may, sing while you may, for the race to the change when the calamity comes, and in your agitation you will find it apt to "chuck" a revolver into your gold pen and ripper you had last week for his support. The *Alert* knows that comet is going to be published a time card yet, and we are not going to loosen this one to to wait for earth station, but as its speed is such that it is approaching, the sun on its way with and there are no stations between, it will arrive somewhere upon its journey. Comets were once regarded by the people with terror and some were considered as the Harbingers of some national calamity. The great comet of 1811, immediately preceding the death of Julius Ceasar. Of that time no one can predict from and where they are going is as yet an unsolved problem of natural science. The comet of 1811 had a head forty-six miles in diameter and stretched its tail a hundred million miles in length. In this enlightened age comets and such are contemplated as beauties rather than terrors of the sky; still this one has been very officially described to be of less density than a heavy fog so apparently on the road over the comet's path headed. They demonstrate the magnitude of the cosmos and the omnipotent power which appointed their motion past them so mighty. Unless war no revelation a glance through the telescope showing a comet and through the solar system must convince man that there is a God. The people of Duluth are somewhat "broke up" because President Villard did not bring his golden spike party to the "smalls city of the notarial west." It does not matter; Fargo and Bismarck are very beginning point of the Northern Pacific. Duluth is on the water, as it were, and it is not surprising that its people kick. Whenever any one sort of and against the capital commission bill, the consensus of argument was to the effect that the acted under it are blameless. They performed duties in the line of their duty by that act of the legislature, and if any of the acts committed are found upon the final adjudication to be invalid the fault will lie in the law rather than in those who performed their in the premises thus far been directed and without any just cause of attack towards the men and the legislature that made the law. The commission has been made up of good representative men from different parts of the territory; and the most severe stricture upon that has been heaped upon them was entirely undeserved and unutterably unjust. When the editor of the *Mandan Pioneer* made his advent into Dakota a few years ago, he armed himself up at and a deed of "real-how," he had grammar on the 14 hour to begin with. He was accustomed to use the expression "de don't" and was always indifferent to his style of bail. The "sockdowed" editor would no doubt be held back as a good example, and test his taste in secluded rogue over that grammatical error and "sright" (of the game. For a few years since it began to take on the editoriousness of a tailor made and put on the authority, however, and has now quite recovered from the attack of a school disease, and has become same. As disease always attacks the weakest first, perhaps the seat of the infection should be affected with every met to a remedy, after which he is treated with an attack of morality on the brain. He imagines that the *Alert*, Bismarck Tribune, Valley City Times, Fargo Argus, and other papers in the country whose advertising space is worth looking after are in danger of extinction for publishing the Louisiana Lottery advertisements. If anybody is in danger it is obviously due to the fact that it was a little dose too strong for itself. If the Pioneer ever obtains a situation in an argument that accords with even common principle, he will be in a position then to offer instruction to the citizens. --- The following are items composed at a prominent merchant and taxpayer of Jamestown drops the following note to us: "You could use the your city's money to good advantage using that. It is a great necessity for a meeting of the Jamestown people acting on your city council of the necessity of at once taking action to meet this firm department. It is a want not felt by the city more, than every thing." The necessity of some efficient means of fire protection is not only a vital question, but what would be practicable in the expense of a water system for the city mans helps to set the people thinking about it, and your correspondent is called to have suggestions of the best practical method of fire protection. Hearing from others for it is an important one and the multitude of counsel there is wisdom. --- Mr. H. A. Mathies played a match game of finger billiards at Murphy's saloon Monday evening, for a good many dollars with five Jamestown gentlemen who agreed to play with him, and at each stage of the game the flip fingered gentleman from Yankton was standing at the table where he kept them until he scattered many of the gentlemen, and the game grew rather stale and the Yankton man finding no competitor to tip up the stakes and permit the expert to find a patron with which to play better. No betting was indulged in, although the game was very narrowly watched by the expert. As a finger billiard player we see among people as to the average. With a cue is [it rang?] all the Jamestown experts, placing not one to two hundred at a run. Taking the best from each department, the stab and exhibition was quite entertaining, and no doubt secured for the Mathias a paying quantity of suckers who would bet on "another man's game." The Yankton *Press* publishes the following in reference to the celebrated lottery question. "That a fine strip crop production is in the way of actual settlement of the state lottery question. The heavily in calculated portions of the farm is in distress in three years ago, the state has sections lying unimproved into sub-divisions each having a large number of lots, now being offered to the best advantage with broad quarters, each sub-division having been laid out in to ten-acre lots. These lots were bought at a cost of 60 cents in state script, and now they have established grain, machinery, etc.; makes it a little better having a high standard, and as regards to all and repairs and renewals is all per acre. The average yield is not less than the average value of £25 per acre, and the production of all other farming, especially corn and small grain, the addition of this surface has been added to until this one tract alone is a paying property going to crop 200 self sliders are employed in the division and pays one per acre per day. The average number of settlers to an acre is a factor of New England, not less than five bushels per acre set at 40 per bushel and, or above the cost of its production $1.00 per bushel. It is expected that this year's crop will not be a sign less than 240,000 bushels of grain from wheat alone. Division No. 3 covers about 1,000 acres, and the threshers turn out 1,000 bushels each per day. --- ## COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. **Business of Stutsman County Transacted by its Financial Guardians.** Proceedings of board of county commissioners in session at 10 o'clock a. m., Sept. 17, 1889. Present—Commissioner Woodbury. Recess, the board again convened to meet at 2 o'clock p. m. Board convened at 2 o'clock p. m. Present—Commissioner Woodbury. The board adjourned to meet in a joint meet at 10 o'clock a. m., Sept. 20, 1889. --- **Sept. 20, 1889.** Board in session at 10 o'clock a. m., Sept. 20 1889. Present—Commissioners Norkum and Woodbury. Nickson in the chair. The minutes of last meeting read and approved. On motion, the county attorney was instructed to take legal steps to compel the children of George Brewitt to support him. On motion, all road supervisors were instructed to stop all road and bridge work at once, without a special order to proceed from the board of county commissioners. On motion the following bills were allowed: James Lanrin, mileage to district court, $2.50 J. J. Quinn, 3 days petit juror and mileage, costs in county, $4.20 J. W. Boline, witness fee and mileage, $4.80 H. Kohl, witness and mileage, $3.20 A. Mc[illegible], against juror and mileage, district court, $4.80 A. H. Gillian, 3 days petit juror and mileage, $3.20 Geo W Yerman, 13 days petit juror, district court, $13.00 O. E. McVeigh, 3 days petit juror and mileage, $4.80 J. Hartey, 3 days petit juror, dist. court, 3.20 John Landon, 3 days petit juror and mileage, $3.80 James Laughlin, 13 days petit juror, district court, $13.00 Jas Moffitt, 3 days petit juror and mileage, $3.80 John Robertson, 3 days petit juror and mileage, $4.80 G. F. Rowe, 3 days petit juror and mileage, $5.00 W A Schlecht 3 days petit juror and mileage, $3.80 A A Swanson 13 days petit juror and mileage, $14.80 [illegible] 3 days petit juror and mileage, $5.60 John Haley, 3 days petit juror and mileage, $5.40 J M Oleson, 3 days grand juror dist. court, $3.00 A L Hausman, 3 day petit jury and mileage, $4.80 N Duxbury, 3 days petit juror, dist. court, $3.00 P H Filoy, 16 days petit juror district court, $16.00 A Harris, report and mileage to petit juror district court, $5.40 [illegible] 3 days petit juror and mileage, $4.80 Thos C Ellis furnitures for court, $17.50 Geo [illegible] for furniture [illegible] court, [illegible] & Spencer 3 copies of court record, $[illegible] [illegible] board of supervisor, [illegible] [illegible] board of supervisor, [illegible] [illegible] for auditor, [illegible] [illegible] for clerk court, [illegible] [illegible], [illegible] N C [illegible], delinquent tax, [illegible] [illegible] 11, 43.40; No. [illegible] No. 1 for $90.00; No. 2 $22.00; No. 10 $15.00; No. 13, $50.00; No. 14, $12.50; No. 15, $12.50; No. 16, $268.50; No. 17, $26.00; No. 18, $20.00; No. 19, $30.00; No. 20, $17.00; No. 21, $241.2. District No. 1, J. W. Lower [illegible]: No. 1 for $100; No. 23 $38.00; No. 29, $11.70; No 31, $85.00; No. 32, $47.50; No. 33, $3.48. District No. 4, G W Blackledge, [illegible]: No. 1, $38.00; No. 2 $3.50; No. 4 $15.00; 1,445 00; No. 12, $152.00; No. 75, $100.00; No. 75 ½ $100.00; 5 per cent back taxes. District No. 3, A. McKechnie superviser: Road No. 1 $[illegible]. On motion, county engineer reported on proposed site for bridge across the James River near Moore's Ford, Harvey and sheep and No. Dakotas W. Harvey land filed and qualified as county engineer. On motion board adjourned. E. B. Morse, County Clerk. --- ## Who Is He? The following communication from Fort Buford has been sent to the Bismarck *Tribune*: Fort Buford, Sept. 17.—Michael Chisman left Fort Buford some four or five months ago for Dakota and has not been heard from by his family since the time of his departure. He had recently given some cause of worry to his family, and are open the charity of friends to be excuse. Any person who can furnish anything of the where-abouts of this young man will confer a great benefit upon his mother and family, who are in a great state of anxiety about him. Dakota and Montana papers may greatly the little grief by passing this notice around. A. S. Turner, Postmaster. --- **An Exceptionally Fine Display.** A Herald reporter visited floral hall at the state fair at Fargo recently commenting more specifically an exhibit made there by the Northen Minnesota Tobacco company. He says, "Perhaps no exhibit at their newly completed trans-continental tobacco and cigar exhibition has elicited more comments from all who examined it than the tobacco exhibit from Northern Minnesota. This were specimens of leaf tobacco, grown by Chas. Williams, Kleve, Swensson, Klibe, Blackhall and others in the Red River valley in Northern Minnesota. This variety of heavy and well developed plants are grown quite early in the season and when cured by the patent roller process—known as "Star of the North" process from Montana, Washington and Oregon, they are found to be fully equal to the famed Connecticut leaf tobacco grown in those territories. They are of luxuriant growth, heavy of body, fine in texture, and of a superior quality. The exhibit was as fine a display of home grown tobacco as is perhaps to be found in the north. The farmers who inspected it were surprised to find leaf tobacco grown to its highest terms of praise. It comprises some 50 or 60 samples of the leaf arranged in a tasteful manner. Mr. Theodore Flore of Grand Forks, one of the managers of the company, who was in Buffalo, was in attendance and the exhibit attracted much comment. Various samples of Minnesota, North Dakota, Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin raised tobacco were shown. The company, main agent of the road, was also in attendance and gave full and free information regarding the region referred to, at St. Paul, Minn.—Rochester, N. Y., [illegible] at all." --- **A Pittsburgh Horror.** Pittsburgh, Sept. 25—Another disastrous fire. It has been customary for the dents that have from time to time spread over the city, the almost endless road stone and stone wonders, and their families to seek their homes after the appearance of the dangers affecting the operations of the city in this vast region. The danger greater than those which affected the life of the road was the fact that many of the more calamitous fatalities have occurred among this class. One fire was particularly harrowing in its conditions, threatening in its morning. In the morning fire was reported that one of those buildings had a result in the instant death of three women and the serious injury of a party of twelve others. Between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning a panic seized throughout the city which shook many thousand people from their sleeping shadows and severely frightened the residents of the burning building and drove their inmates into the streets in terror. Into one of those, where a family of five was struck and upon investigation it was found that the origin of fire in the foraging department of the Sligo iron and steel works, where there were sheds gathering flying fragments in every direction, and strewing them over rooftops, road slopes and a number of dwellings in the surrounding area. The streets were dark like wild fire and were thousands of people were set abroad in the night. There were also a number of passenger cars being set on fire at the north end of the stage of the Lake Erie railroad, while a number of dwelling houses on the side of the street were in flames. Men, women and children were rushing about in terror, watching their hands and calling for friends and screaming in their fright at the fumes of the flaming department. Scalded and burning patients were brought to the station with legs and arms off, some dying immediately on being moved, some suffering from severe burns and scalds. The passengers were flying from the forces and the work of removing the dead and injured went on after the catastrophe. It was found that at the time of the catastrophe the losses to property and the lives also are reported all right, three persons being reported seriously, and one fatally, while four children of Charles Douglass, living across the street, were blown off. The following is the list of killed and hurt as officially known at 4 o'clock: John McGlarigian, scalded and sides crushed in. Wm. Daniels, side of head blown off. Peter Douglass, compactly fractured the right leg and other injuries, probably fatal. Mary Burns, side scalded. Edw. Motley, head hurt by falling sash. Patrick Lock, leg and arm shorn off. Others. The neighbors did all they could to assist in the relief of the sufferers. No more lives, fortunately, had been lost on the Monongahela river. It is [sic] known that the wreck was caused by an explosion. After the dinner hour and steam had been getting in the direction previously as being unknown, and a thorough investigation will be made. The property was owned by Lyon, Short & Co., but now by Mc. Carter, Barber and Co., and the loss is fully estimated at the rolling mill property and company and dwellings $30,000. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 22—To-day Gloria Wallace, colored, sentenced to the hang at Savannah, next Friday. --- ## NEWS BY TELEGRAPH Agram, Sept. 21—Six hundred peasants from Gradwace and B[illegible] assem at Novi, and shouting, "We won't pay taxes any more." The military attempted to disperse the mob. One of them crowd attempted to knife a soldier. Disturbance at midnight were received in the reports following the affray, the troops returned the fire, killing ten and wounding many more. Two soldiers killed. Pittsburgh, Sept. 21—Berg steelworks are burning. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 22—Commercial building on Fourth street on fire. The fire is being well controlled. The loss will not exceed $50,000. Wilmington, N.C., Sept. 22—Distilleries in Richmond county, of an expressive character in [illegible?]-[illegible?], of a negro poisoned for damages, for attempting to secure a white girl of a few years of age, the mob doing all things to the scene without the aid of the regular police officers. Liverpool, Sept. 21—Weekly Grain market quiet and unchanged with North Dakota winter rather more steady. English wheat and Irish corn at full prices. Lexington, Sept. 22—Coal miners and certain others in the Valley trades, have a butter feeling in apparel and trade for forward delivery also improved. London, Sept. 22—The coal and iron market there was an average attendance and quiet. Prices are pretty well maintained, especially for red winter, which shows signs of having been worked. Corn dull, small supply and rather stiffer prices. Newcastle, Sept. 21—A buyer of wheat with transfer secured on the floor of the chamber of commerce to buy wheat with transit of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road. He was bidding oil the last advance prices and taking the transit with it. Rumor has it that he is taking the title of the road and that he has brought with him fabulous sums to back him. Nobody he seems to know him or who is the agent of the road or anybody else, but every body knows that he is building up one of his own. The character of his pretension on these conditions and the fact that he refuses transit of any other road, makes the purchase of the road appear to be correct, and that he is protecting the interest of the road in its fight with the current stock price. Waterbury, Sept. 21—A two o'clock a fire broke out in Birmingham theatre. Villard replied that he would come Thursday. He has now outstanding $40,000 per mile payable in first mortgage obligations, which make the rate of interest very high. Villard, on the subject of delivering a package, he made some remark about its being addressed by the lady. She rushed from the room and he left the theatre at once. John Collins On his arrival he found two men, apparently father and daughter, battering at the door. Collins stepped in front of them and the man was shot by policeman and had Birmingham arrested. The man thus charged was fined for hundred dollars. Later in the day Manchester shot also an unfortunate. In the same time gave him his opinion of his position, he was determined to take charge of the McLure House. Birmingham, having secured his position, went upstairs and was about to flee when a porter of the house, fearing the [illegible] in the last six weeks. London, Sept 22—Prof. Nordensjold the Arctic explorer, had arrived and is in the war vessel, a The most lay at the pier, he was immediately arrested and the charge of Cap. Nelson, anchored on the water front, was also his own arrest. He was taken to Liverpool to be [illegible] and to be taken by ship to [illegible?] of British Legislature from [illegible]. The great powers have the same difficulty in this matter that the command of the [illegible] is not to be violated by the captain. He gives an order of the party who acknowledged at his power in the [illegible] and the [illegible] is [illegible] to be sent to England in the morning and almost the full value London, Sept. 4–September 4th Fred P. Eriks, a well known cotton broker, was found with his body in a tank of crude oil beside this refinery building containing opium. He was found guilty of accidental death and the jury accounted guilty of a [illegible?] The factory had been found [illegible] and a good deal of [illegible] had been discovered in pockets of [illegible] which [illegible] in value among the other shares, the whole of which had been appropriated and squandered $6,500 to accumulate more. It is a custom of transferring often times resulting in death. The injuries to former friends of the dead man now came out more fully. When all parted from their wounds they were attended by the police from the [illegible] that ankle to the end of which was [illegible] in the factory tank. Vincennes, Ind., Sept. 22—4½ o'clock in the afternoon, in Vigo county, at Lawrence county, Ill., alleges that he was assaulted some three weeks ago by a man Phillips when he and his wife were at home when a piece of timber weighing fifty pounds fell upon the floor below, bowing forward. It gave way and left a vast aperture. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, Harris and Lewis Jones were in the room at the time and all were thrown forward. He fell upon his face onto the floor before him. The police searched until midnight for the [illegible] and report. He fell to the return toward a nearest and some routed out the alleged Phillips, he then and there drove the carriage from the scene of the case on account of Mrs. [illegible] The woman had the boys in the town in her apartment at the office of county state at Cincinnati and no one was known to have left. Mr. Parks has made clear that the captain of the company was still at the time of this affair. He says it in Tennessee and wanted him to supply more of his party. The rest and trial of assault and battery utterly impossible at this time and the report says that De Villa, a billionaire of this city, who fled to this country has died. --- New York, Sept. 22—Eighteen young women popularly still entertained at a play ball on the Manhattan Athletic club grounds to-day. Their toast was to the league and resulted, Broxton 5k, Brooklyn [illegible]. New Orleans, Sept. 22—The steamer *[illegible?]* from [illegible?] which had among its cargo 250,000 pieces of green stone, was [illegible?]. The total is estimated at $7,500. No lives lost. Cargo will be saved in a damaged condition. The hay is ten feet of water and will be raised. Pittsburgh, Sept. 22—Sunday morning Wm. S. Bagnall, a widow and resident of Forest Hills, drove his children for a ride. On returning home the team became affrighted, hit her bad striking the dock. Mrs. Bagnall was riding with her, was thrown into the water but rescued uninjured. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 22—Commercial building on Fourth street, on fire, Tuesday night, three buildings were burned. The fire was quickly discovered and a fair and carelessly displaced corner. One death has resulted so far and it may lead to death. Two prominent women were injured, but as most of the patients were seen on the upper floor it probably will be slight. Wilmington, N.C., Sept. 22—Fires in Richland county, in [illegible?]-[illegible?], of a negro poisoned for attempt at committing a crime, made to-day. Mckay & Wiess, Jones, Williamson and others [illegible?] of that county. Liverpool, Sept. 21—Weekly Grain market is firm with rather more activity. Corn is under more steady, English wheat good of full prices, and the trade of Indian corn of certain sections in the Valley shows the wheat has been a quiet time, particularly for [illegible] and forward delivery and price of the product is not in all cases well fixed. Lexington, Sept. 22—End Board Posts, eggs poultry and all dairy products are firmer in the advance still. The prices of fresh potatoes turned a station in with a window fiber. Market to-day, [illegible?] potatoes 15 c.; best turnips $2.25; small tender [illegible?] in best but not while advancing it is [illegible?] per 100 that prices shall be high. Phos[illegible?] Stander gave himself upward was held at until to-morrow St. Louis, Sept. 22—Arriver from the Indian Territory say two men named Salter, Tipton and two brothers named Dunbar were assaulted about White Oak Creek as they came along. Salter went down to hunt and fish, and lost 60 shots at a short range, that the party had claimed the man going to be on search of horse thieves. They came back to find an Indian cabin, but coming to it where he is found Salter pointing at the Grey brothers who left the man at their door demanding tribute. The pose then plundered the cabin and killed all inhabitants. Portland, Oregon, Sept. 22—A storm of applause rang out on the arrival of Villard, president of the Northern Pacific, at the city to-day, where great enthusiasm was bestowed. Villard replied that he would allow contractors to take it at $30,000 per mile and was not the business of one man's purpose. San Francisco, Sept. 22—Capt. Carr[illegible?] on board the [illegible?], just touched off Mazatlan on his way from San Francisco, reports that the President of the Mexican coast combines the reports of San Francisco into the market of the coast. Last year, Capt. [illegible?] was found in a house gathering corpus as a [illegible?] company who was indebted to him for dollars. Later in the day Mons[illegible?] arrived in the city. In the very same time gave him his opinion of his position [illegible?] He was arrested at the time by the city police men, who went to a man named [illegible?] in the territory, dominated the same place as the [illegible?] was the day when Captain Collins was there. He gave an order of the party who had arrived at his power in the [illegible?] and Captain Collins is to be sent to England and almost the full value. Atlanta, Ga., September 4th Fred [illegible?] a well known cotton broker, has been found dead in a tank. The body was found in a [illegible?] containing opium. He was found guilty of accidental death and the jury accounted guilty of a [illegible?] The factory had been found [illegible?] and was part and parcel of it was discovered in pockets of [illegible?] which [illegible?] in value among the other shares in the shares, the whole of which had been appropriated and squandered $6,500 to accumulate more. It is a custom of the [illegible?] often often times resulting in death. Vincennes, Ind., Sept. 22—A man named [illegible?] was arrested here for threatening women after they were receiving their wounds at the [illegible?] that ankle to the end of which was [illegible?] in the [illegible?] factory. --- ## Peripheral items - **COUNTY COMMISSIONERS header**: Subheading "Business of Stutsman County Transacted by its Financial Guardians." - **"Who Is He?" column**: Brief notice regarding missing man Michael Chisman from Fort Buford. - **"An Exceptionally Fine Display" column**: Report on Northern Minnesota Tobacco Company exhibit at the Fargo state fair. - **"A Pittsburgh Horror" column**: Report of a disastrous fire in Pittsburgh with casualties. - **"NEWS BY TELEGRAPH" column**: Multiple short telegraph dispatches from various cities (Agram, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Wilmington, Liverpool, Lexington, London, Newcastle, Waterbury, San Francisco, Atlanta, Vincennes, Portland, St. Louis, New York, New Orleans). - **Jury/commissioner bill listings**: Lengthy tabular list of petit and grand juror payments and mileage under County Commissioners section. - **Road supervisor motions**: Brief notices of county board motions regarding road supervisors and George Brewitt support order.